Health Checks

The Xtivia Health Check is a carefully crafted program designed to review the efficiency as well as effectiveness of your mission-critical database management systems. There are a variety of items which the audit may address depending upon your specific business needs. The review can cover best practices in security, overall performance, backup/recovery, high availability, and other key database checks and balances, while focusing on specific problems, plans, or concerns.

Xtivia currently offers Health Checks for the following platforms:

• IBM DB2 UDB/LUW
• Informix
• Informix XPS
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Oracle
• Sybase
• UniVerse
  

Our clients have found Xtivia Health Checks to be essential to the security, stability, and performance of their vital database environments. Clients rely on our Health Check program to introduce us as an independent party brought in to provide support and analysis in a broad range of areas, including:

• Security audit preparation
• Best practices recommendations based on specifications of particular database vendor 
• Assistance with the planning and sizing efforts for migrations of hardware, software or database upgrades
  
• General performance recommendations or in response to specific performance problems/bottlenecks
• Troubleshooting of problems with the database system or its interaction with applications or other systems
• Backup and recovery initiatives: design, implementation or verification
• Database and application migration efforts
• Database version upgrades
• Recommendations to minimize planned and unplanned downtime
• Replication and high availability project design, implementation and testing
• Simply to have a fresh set of eyes take a look at how their database systems are managed.
• Sometimes client team members get set in their ways and a fresh perspective can aid an environment dramatically.
  

As a result of our analysis, we will provide a written document detailing any issues that were uncovered, as well as our recommendations for both performance improvement and problem resolution. The Health Check report’s recommendations aim to leverage the database environment to its fullest potential while providing operation stability. The report will have clearly defined priorities based on the health check results, and can be followed by a conference call to discuss the findings with the Xtivia team. You can depend on us to help keep you happy and your database systems healthy.